National Food Safety Agency of Moldova warns about sale of food products without documents, with expired validity terms

Chisinau, 31 December /MOLDPRES/ - Inspectors of the National Food Safety Agency (ANSA), on the winter holidays’ period, boosted their sudden controls in trade networks and agro-food markets of Moldova. According to ANSA, among the most frequent infringements discovered, there is the commercialization of food products without certificates which confirm their quality and origin, as well as with the expired validity term.     

ANSA specialists identified more cases of employing staff at units of trade with food products in the lack of medical control and hygienic training. “The non-observance of the sanitary and hygienic conditions in the trade units, of traceability in the process of cooking culinary offerings, legislation on informing consumers, requirements of preserving foodstuffs are other pretty severe infringements, discovered following controls,” ANSA sources have said.    

Also, inspectors found out that street/unauthorized commerce with food products of unknown origin and with the marking Made in Ukraine (meat, salami and sausages, dairy products, fish and fish products, eggs, etc.) took place in the Moldovan capital nearby commercial units and agro-food markets. Taking into account the unfriendly epizootic situation in terms of the African Swine Fever Virus in Moldova and adjacent countries, the National Food Safety Agency asks consumers to notify the competent authorities and police bodies, if they identify cases of illicit trade.    

In the context, ANSA demands that citizens do not buy food products of pork from the neighbouring countries, as they will be confiscated and destroyed at the border, on grounds that they pose risk.

All non-conformities discovered, other deficiencies in the commerce with food products can be signaled at the Agency’s hotline: 0800 800 33 and through the Viber application: 067 675 544.